Chokwe Antar Lumumba had previously called FBI sting while mayor of Jackson a ‘political prosecution’ The former mayor of Mississippi’s capital city pleaded guilty on Monday to bribery, wire fraud and money laundering, after saying a corruption case brought against him two years earlier was a “political prosecution”. Chokwe Antar Lumumba was mayor of Jackson in November 2024 when he was indicted by a federal grand jury after an FBI investigation and sting operation in which he and two other elec